Ditto Flats

My partner and I stayed here for 4 nights in the middle of May, and the short of it is that this place is overpriced and uncomfortable. Pros: location (although this is also a con - more on that later). The neighbourhood is cute with plenty of great cafes, restaurants, and brunch spots. Walking distance (like 10 minutes) to a tram line or metro line, as well as Istiklal street. The manager is also fluent in English and very responsive to email. They let us keep our luggage in the office past check-out, although this wasn't as seamless as we would have hoped (required some prodding). Cons: location - it's at the end of basically an alley and is impossible to find for any driver. We had to arrange our pick up to the airport at the teaching hospital nearby, as no taxi driver or travel company knows this place exists. We booked the ground floor suite, which is listed as a "duplex". Duplex apparently means "half-basement", because the living area and bed is down a flight of stairs with an incredibly low ceiling, and the steps are slippery. Really uncomfortable to go up and down, ESPECIALLY with luggage. The whole unit smelled a little funny. The toilet seat wouldn't stay open. Very little natural light enters the unit. The cleaners come early in the day and try to enter without knocking. There's no concierge. So many things that are annoying about this place, but my MAIN issue is that it's overpriced. We could have got a hotel room for the same price at this time of year, but the reviews and pictures we saw are wildly misleading and led us astray. We spent our last 4 nights in Istanbul annoyed that we shelled out money for such lackluster accommodation. I would not recommend this place, at least not for the current price point. One final point: the worker who let us in and gave us keys was incredibly annoying. I told them we had transport to airport set up, and they still asked me on WhatsApp like 3x if they could drive us AT THE SAME PRICE, although they did lower the price eventually. I didn't have a good impression of them, hence my reticence, but one "no" should have been enough.

The place so nice clean good location near everything near shopping the coffee 6 minutes walking neat the metro too the stuff fatihia and Jan so nice very helpful the owner too very polite and helpful I recommend to the tourists I stay in the first flour so nice and also has 2 air conditioner in Istanbul we can't stay in a place without air conditioning thank you everyone 😀